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by zcw100 1684 days ago
I think there's a lot of "Python's the greatest thing in the world" coming from ML/AI and it always reminds me of this. I wish I knew who said it.

"People who know one language think it's the greatest in the world. People who know more than one think they all suck."

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> "People who know one language think it's the greatest in the world. People who know more than one think they all suck."

The Blub paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

(BTW, the TL;DR is people that know more than one language admit they all fall short one way or another, but there are some languages that are more productive than others).